Folding picture-album.



No. 778,282. PATENTED nmzv, 1904.

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I FOLDING PICTURE ALBUM;

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 28, 1904.

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iatented December 1904.

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AXEL O. SODERGREN, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA;

FOLDING PICTURE-ALBUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 778,282, datedfbecember 27, 1904.

' V Application filed March 28, 1904. Serial No. 200,288.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, AXEL, O. Sonnnennn, a citizen of the United States, residing atMinneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Folding Picture-Albums; and I do hereby declare the following 1 to be afull, clear, and exact description of the panying drawings,wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the album shown as folded. Fig. 2 is a section ,on the line 40 m of Fig. 1, showing the cards of the album drawn laterally apart. Fig. 3 is a plan or face view of the complete device unfolded. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section on the line :13 m of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a'longitudinal section on the line m of Fig. 3; and Fig. 6 is a view corresponding to Fig. 3, but showing the device turned with its other end up, parts thereof being broken away.

The'numeral 1 indicatesa plurality of that are connected at their sides for endwise engagement by cords or flexible straps 2,

p which straps are attached to the opposite ends of adjacent cards, as shown in Fig. 2. As shown, Figs. 3 and 5, these cordsare attached tothe cards by being passed through suitable perforations therein, and being knotted or otherwise secured at their ends.-

A long film or picture-marked strip'3, as

shown inFig. hiis attached to the left-hand face of the uppermost of the cards 1 and passes thence'in a loose fold 3 downward around the lower end of the next adjacent card and is attached to the opposite or righthand sidethereof at 1, thence is doubled upon] cards thence it passes downward in a loose fold 3 to near the bottom of the lower card 1 and is then again doubled upon itself, the upwardlyextending portionthereof being attached to the left-hand face of said lower card at 1 A picture-plate f is stuck to the inner face of the fold 3, and another picture-plate, 5, is stuck to the outer face of the fold 3". ture-plate 6 is marked on the outer face of the fold 3, which picture-plate is cut away, as hereinafter described.

As shown, a picture-plate 7 is'stuck to the left-hand face of the second card from the top, and a similar picture-plate 8 is stuck to the right-hand face of the second card from the bottom. The above directions, right and left,

and the designation of the cards as the first, second, (Ste. from the top or bottom, are taken with respect to vFigs. 4: and 5; but it will of course be understood that the said cards A pic-.

change their relative positions when the device is manipulated. The connecting-cords 2 are placed at the sides of the cards outside the strip 3, and it will be noted by reference to Fig. 2 that the loose-portions or folds of the strip 3 extend diagonally ofthe cords 2, so that the said cords form hinges, as it were, over which the cards will fall downward when the device is suspended from one end, while the picture-strip 3 will form hinges at the other ends of the said cards, over which the cards will fall downward when the device is suspended from its other end.

When the device is supported by the card which in Fig. 3 is shown as having thereon the picture of a waterfall, the cards will assume the positions shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 ;v but when the device is turned the other end up and suspended by the card shown as marked with a pitcher the cards will assume the positions indicated in part by'Fig. 6. "In the position of the cards shown in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 the picture on the plate 7 is covered from view, as are also the pictures on theinner sides of the folds 3 and 3 and the upper or left hand portion of the pictureto wit, the

pitchershown on the right-hand face of I oo.

tion of the design marked on the said lower The picture-strip 3 and the picture 6 marked thereon is cut away at 9, the said picture 6 being a design which is supplemental to a porcard 1. (See Figs.3 and 6.) When the two cards are folded together, said picture 6 is adapted to register with the lower portion of the complete design and to transform the same, so far as appearances go, into a goblet. The lower portion of the said complete design representing the pitcher is in the position of the parts shown in Fig. 6 visible through the sight-opening or cut-away portion 9 of the portion of the strip 3 upon which the supplemental design is marked.

It will thus be seen that by these supplemental designs placed on different cards and by manipulating the cards so as to cause them to overlap or fold in different ways changeable pictures are provided.

It Will of course be understood that these changing or combination figures or pictures may in practice be worked out in a great many different'ways, so as to add to the attractiveness of the device. It will also be understood that the device described is capable of modification Within the scope of my invention as herein set forth and claimed.

VVhatI claim,and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

1. The combination with a plurality of cards 1, connected for hinge-like movements in reverse directions by hinge-cords 2, and a pieture-strip 3, to which said cards are secured, certain sections of said strip having openings at 9, and having pictures that are supplemental to pictures on adjacent sections of said strip, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination with a plurality of cards 1, of cords 2, connecting the opposite ends of adjacent cards for hinge-like movements, the picture-strip 3 attached to the said cards, and having the loose folds 3, 3" and 3", the said strip 3 connecting said cards for hinge-like movements reverse from those permitted by the said cords 2, the said cards and picture strips having pictures thereon, substantially AXEL O. SODERGREN.

Witnesses:

ROBERT C. MABEY, F. l). MERCHANT. 

